The Reason Behind the ambush

(sound of footsteps of water)

(splash)(splash)(splash)..

Si Woo: "I don't know how many days had been passed, since I had been walking here? I can't sleep, I don't hungry as well. I just want to walk."

Each step is a little bit heavier and heavier and now I have to struggle to even take a step ahead, what is this?

After a few more days,

Si Woo: "I can't even take another step anymore, it is like the water is so sticky or something is grabbing my feet, getting heavier to move. No matter how much I struggle, I can't move. Huu, I can't waste my strength like this, I need to focus my mind, calm down."

Suddenly, a chanting voice faintly appeared in Si Woo's head.

"All life is suffering...."

Si Woo: "What?" Where does that sound come from?

After a while,

"The sound appears inside my head, after thinking a while, I figured that sound only appears when I try to calm down my mind, otherwise, it won't work. I tried so many times already. I am sure of it."

"First, let calm down."

(Faint voice) "All life is suffering, all suffering leads to death, all death is meaningful because each one of them leads to another beginning of life". "All life is suffering, all suffering leads to death, pain and suffering are only temporary."

Si Woo: "All life is suffering, all suffering leads to death, all death is meaningful because each one of them leads to another beginning of life?" I don't know the meaning but somehow it calms down my mind. As soon as Si Woo's repeat the voice in his head, his thought become clear, his heart start to calm down and his mind is slowly calm down like a pond without any disturbances. Slowly, his body is swallowed by the water, he didn't notice as he closed his eyes, and focus his mind only on the voice in his head".

Mira(voice): Brother! You are awake. James, brother is awake.

Si Woo's slowly opened his eyes. "Mira?" (confused look) "Where are you here? Brother tell you to escape. Where am I?"

(door opened sound) Click! Si Woo's ear suddenly twitch.

(whoosh) A Custom-made pen flew toward the neck of James at the speed to the extend and normal human don't even catch it with eyes.

James: Dodge! "Oh! It's me boy. (Silence)" (whisper) Strange. I didn't teach you to throw it like that. Where did you learn that? Boy?"

Mira: brother, it is James. He is alive.

Si Woo: (silence) "You are real right, James?"

James: "Yep, real and alive. Still warm and heart beating. Boy. And I would be very much appreciating if you do not throw something dangerous at me with that speed like that again."

Si Woo: (breathe) Sorry, I thought you are enemy. Wait, I thought you had been shot down, no?

James: "I indeed had been shot, but to take down me, you have to at least pack a bullet directly into my head, ha ha ha?"

James becomes more talkative than usual. Maybe he is the type to open up himself to someone close to him, in this case, someone who had been go through death and life situation with him together.

Mira: "Brother do you need any headache, or any discomfort?"

Si Woo: "Aside from that, (angry voice) "I told you to escape, why didn't listen to my words? huh? Do you really want to die that much?" Huh?"

Mira: (silence)

James: "Hey, Boy. Don't be too harsh on your sister too much, I know you care about her, but she cares about you more than you care about her even though you aren't even her biological brother. If not for her stopping your bleeding without caring her precious life when you are unconscious, and giving you blood when doing the surgery, you would be long dead already."

Si Woo: (silence) "Mira, I told you to run away, why did you come for me?" (calm voice) 

Mira: (silence)

Si Woo: (gentle voice)"Mira, tell your brother, why did you come back for me?"

Mira: tears coming down from her eyes. "(crying voice) I thought you died, dummy. If you die, who will take care of me, mother said, to take care of each other right? Why are you trying to die alone? I hate you. I hate you for trying to leave me alone. Dummy. Idiot, stupid brother."

Si Woo: (Silence)

Si Woo suddenly grab Mira's hand, making her faced buried into his chest. He holds Mira's head gently while padding her head. (whisper) "Yes, this dummy brother didn't know that his sister loves him so much. This dummy brother deserved to be punished right? Sorry for being an idiot and trying to leave you alone. And thank you."

(silence)

James: "Well, anyway, if not for you, I couldn't be able to track down the assassin. Thank you boy, for acting as a bait."

Si Woo: "Ha ha ha (awkward laugh) "I better not tell him that I am not intending to be myself as bait but as my last struggle before dying right?"

James: Don't worry about, we have meet up with our friends, we are now in a private hospital under your company name.

Si Woo: "My company?"

James: "Yes, oh you don't know that right? Your father transfers the ownership of this company to you as when you are 12 years old. It had been 6 years since then, since you are not old enough to manage the company legally, the management right is temporary transferred to your secretary. Now, you are old enough, you need to know your company as well."

Si Woo: "Wait, my secretary at that time? I didn't have a secretary when I was 12 years old?"

James: "Well, you have, you didn't notice. She is someone you know quite well and also someone related to your mother. Well, I want to know what your father is thinking when he made a bet with you at that time, but your company is a monster in the business world to the extend even foreigner knows about your company well of course except for the fact that who own the company. I don't understand much about business after all, your secretary will be here in a min to briefly explained everything about all of this to you."

James: "rest well for now, you have been in coma for 3 days after surgery. We will depart tomorrow morning to the HQ of your company."

Si Woo: "Wait, where is my company?"

James: "Oh, your company base is in another country? Well, there are a ton of different kinds of businesses under your company's name but technically the base is there. I need to go, Si Woo. Get better soon."

James: "Oh wait, I think you don't even know your own company name, right?"

"I think your company name is "ARK Trading Cooperation if I remember correctly?" "Anyway, adios".

Si Woo: "This guy, I was told he also got shot in the neck, it is just he not only managed to dodge the fetal wound, maybe it also changed his personality i guess?"

James turns his back and slowly walk away from the room.

Door closes. (sound)

Sound of high heel, (clap...clap....clap....)

Meanwhile...in Africa,

Gang Leader: "What? Another of ours' facility had been destroyed! What the fxxk in hell are you guys doing all the time?"

Member: "Sir, we double the securities since the first attack, and we monitor all personals movement within the facility, I don't how there is a security breach under our very nose."

Gang Leader: "You idiot, of course there is a mole within the group. Find the mole within two days until our next shipping, we already lost 5% of our product. You know how hard these blood diamonds are rare to come by right?"

Gang Leader: "Meaningless to talk about our white gold. We have lost hundreds of tons of pounds since the first target is one of our warehouses. If this continues like this, that man will cut my head off, but before that I will make sure to cut off yours too. Find me who did this? who is behind these in two days or else your head will be rolling down the floor just like a rotten coconut, got that?"

Member: "(gulp) yes, I will do that"

Gang Leader: "There is someone behind all this. Whoever it is, I will find him, and I will torture him day by day, until he finally begged for mercy. After all that, I will kill his family in front of him, let them know how this man is not to be messed with."

Spy radio: "Chatter chatter how this man is not to be messed with."

Unknown: "We have attacked four of their facilities, but never thought, one of them is jackpot. But even after hitting this hard, the head of the snake doesn't come out."

Unknown: "Well, they are a massive organization, very well organized and their attacks on private company owner and other bigshots are well planned, during last two years, they had attacked government troops patrolling the border multiple and each time, we managed to eliminate most of them, but they are like cockroach, no matter how many times, we cut their head off, they multiply and regrow in numbers. We have been trying to cut off their numbers little by little, by cutting off their main business, blood diamonds and white gold as they called, "The production of raw cocaine ingredient from poppy seeds."

Unknown: "Can't we just kill them off, we already know their hideout and we have the informer inside as well. Why bother spying to what they are talking in their office day to day."

Unknown: "You don't know really well, although the person who called himself, "the gang leader" that person only the puppet of that organization, to even start with, they aren't even the organization, their main processing is in the production of cocaine, handling blood diamonds and shipping the batches to the unknown buyers around the world."

Unknown: "So, you are saying is that..."

Unknown: "Yes, they are just low-level members that handle mostly drug dealership and smuggling. I know they are dangerous as well, but even if we capture them or somehow manage to eliminate them & destroy their processing facilities, the broken ones will be rebuilt and the captured one will be replaced meaning that doesn't change anything. We are aiming for the headshot."

Unknown: "We have been doing that for 1 year, we don't even know how exactly their organization is based on or how they get their funds to do the terrorist attack on the populated cities. We are not dealing with some snappy drug production organization; we are dealing with a highly trained and well-organized terrorist organization that holds the capabilities to attempt multiple attacks pattern on government troops and military asserts. Even some famous politician and military officers are in their pocket which means they have that massive financial ability to bride someone high authority. That's why, we can't inform the "INTERPOL" as well. We can't be sure that there is a mole inside the "INTERPOL" as well. Informing them would be alarming both terrorist organization and "INTERPOL" our existence." In any case, we will be tracked by others as the very main purpose of our group is to be the "GHOST" which very existence doesn't exist."

Unknown: "You guys kept tracking and doing the mission objective, I need to go back to company to meet the CEO"

Chatter.. Chatter..

Unknown: "So, our CEO is finally coming of age, huh?"

Unknown: "Seem like it, I need to talk with and maybe I will need to briefly explain everything about his company to him. Any means, while I am out, keep monitoring their movement, report back to me immediately if there is something unusual."

Unknown: "Yes, sir."

Unknown: "But Sis. I think the CEO might remember about you, but I don't think he will remember us?"

Unknown: "Well, if he dares to forget his dear sister, I will make sure that he never forgets about me again. His terrifying and loving sis."